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they will go to pakistan the next day. they have already paid for the bomb they just have to bring it back home. it is turkey, iraq, every country believed to be a superpower will go nuclear. nuclear balance will include many participants is not stable. if it just israel against iran, the main concept is destruction, basically, the cold world war is not there anymore. there is no communication between iran and israel. at this time, the soviet union had an embassy in washington, d.c. the brother of the president, kennedy went to the embassy in d.c. and they tried to deescalate a war that was about to have a nuclear war. there is no iran embassy in israel. there is no white line between the prime minister office and the supreme leader. this is not an israeli problem. the iranian regime has turned against everything we stand for, freedom, human rights, rule of law, women's rights, everything. last word, if you believe i am the only one in the world who is taking part in operations. two are very successful -- [applause] two ar
they will go to pakistan the next day. they have already paid for the bomb they just have to bring it back home. it is turkey, iraq, every country believed to be a superpower will go nuclear. nuclear balance will include many participants is not stable. if it just israel against iran, the main concept is destruction, basically, the cold world war is not there anymore. there is no communication between iran and israel. at this time, the soviet union had an embassy in washington, d.c. the brother...
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. >> pakistan and i'm concerned about pakistan. i always want pakistan to overcome its dysfunction for pakistan's sake. i want good relations in the united states but it's not because out of -- just out of love or getting to the united states out of love for pakistan. pakistan has to understand and realize as a nation that no other nation can stretch you and make your size bigger than your neighbor. so india's size is an advantage to india. pakistan needs to get over one thing -- [inaudible] and be happy with security of india as long as it's not from india. pakistan has nuclear weapons, india has nuclear weapons. now pakistan needs to trade with everybody in the neighborhood. address the economic dysfunction, put the 48% of school-aged children in school and make sure that pakistan's population doesn't continue to rise at a base that is much faster than the base of the economic growth. none of those things can be addressed just by building nation between an american military piers personality. >> the former ambassador to the u.s.
. >> pakistan and i'm concerned about pakistan. i always want pakistan to overcome its dysfunction for pakistan's sake. i want good relations in the united states but it's not because out of -- just out of love or getting to the united states out of love for pakistan. pakistan has to understand and realize as a nation that no other nation can stretch you and make your size bigger than your neighbor. so india's size is an advantage to india. pakistan needs to get over one thing --...
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includes pakistan. would it be smart for the united states to foreswear any listening in on the leaders of those two countries? >> the test for me is whether or not the leaders have a reasonable expectation that we are not going to try to listen in on their expectations. that to me would be a test. and if there is a reasonable expectation that we would not be trying to listen to their conversations then i think we ought to have some kind of an understanding with other countries about protecting our leaders from listening in -- from being listened in to. it is kind of a -- using it as kind of a privacy test, what do americans, what is their reasonable expectation as to whether or not their business records are going to be opened to more than the telephone companies,. >> right. >> kind of that issue. what is the reasonable expectation about privacy? i think that our friends and allies, leaders ought to have -- do have or should have, by the way, even if they don't and they are so cynical now giving up bel
includes pakistan. would it be smart for the united states to foreswear any listening in on the leaders of those two countries? >> the test for me is whether or not the leaders have a reasonable expectation that we are not going to try to listen in on their expectations. that to me would be a test. and if there is a reasonable expectation that we would not be trying to listen to their conversations then i think we ought to have some kind of an understanding with other countries about...
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pakistan tonight i certainly don't want to do, but does show the problem. >> anyone else? >> just quickly, this goes back to the example of senator and in mr. sweeney had. and the comment you made while making $50,000, and they need eight times annual income is savings can hardly take it out. the fact they don't make their income is leaving because are getting social security. social security is a much bigger part of retirement than for someone making $150,000 per year. retirement planning is really complicated. it depends what your income level is on the how many kids you had come are you single, married? is easy to take these rules of thumb and misapplied them. i'll say that for certain. they are safely the reasons they pointed out. physically demanding jobs can't make it to 65. the problem is it wasn't just the folks who retired at 62. what do we do that? one idea to encourage people to work longer i propose eliminating the social security payroll tax for workers age 62 and over. there's a carrot as well as a stick. >> excuse me to an arrest. that would mean their month
pakistan tonight i certainly don't want to do, but does show the problem. >> anyone else? >> just quickly, this goes back to the example of senator and in mr. sweeney had. and the comment you made while making $50,000, and they need eight times annual income is savings can hardly take it out. the fact they don't make their income is leaving because are getting social security. social security is a much bigger part of retirement than for someone making $150,000 per year. retirement...
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the fact remittances and quite a lot of indian and pakistan. those linkages are quite important as well. and we often have that stove pipe discussion about sort of our policies. but they view it as very important. you know, and i don't, you know, i agree with the rest of your comments. i sympathize a lot with them. i don't know if you have any other reactions to it. it >>. >> hello. in the back. i guess there's a microphone coming back there. does the mic work okay? it seems like we a little trouble. gentleman in the audience was signaling trouble here. >> i want to thank everyone for the discussion and also for the accommodation of the current trends. i guess my question is for bryan -- ticks starts from your satisfaction, it seems to me. but our syria -- [inaudible] but the president has now said syria is someone else's siflt war. i wonder what you think the argument for why it is something else that would be persuasive within the administration, for that matter to the american public. it would seem to me, anyway, that the argument would be i
the fact remittances and quite a lot of indian and pakistan. those linkages are quite important as well. and we often have that stove pipe discussion about sort of our policies. but they view it as very important. you know, and i don't, you know, i agree with the rest of your comments. i sympathize a lot with them. i don't know if you have any other reactions to it. it >>. >> hello. in the back. i guess there's a microphone coming back there. does the mic work okay? it seems like we...
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pakistan has a larger gdp that island, and nobody says pakistan is a richer country. what matters is per capita gdp and per capita income. there is a way to estimate immigration process impact on the per capita income of the nativeborn. there is the immigrant surplus that shows about 98% of that extra gdp, that extra added to the economy from immigration goes to the immigrants themselves in the forms of wages and benefits. there is a tiny benefit to the nativeborn, equal to about 2/10 of one percent of gdp. it is caused -- called the immigrant surplus. you could argue it does create a benefit to the nativeborn, but it is very small. so, that is the second issue. now, if you accept the idea that there is an immigrant surplus, you have to accept the redistribution of income that immigration creates. this has to do with future flows or allowing illegal immigrants to stay. the best preachers -- research shows it is redistributing about $4 billion in the u.s. economy and mainly from the less educated to more educated workers and owners of capital. immigrants are not evenly
pakistan has a larger gdp that island, and nobody says pakistan is a richer country. what matters is per capita gdp and per capita income. there is a way to estimate immigration process impact on the per capita income of the nativeborn. there is the immigrant surplus that shows about 98% of that extra gdp, that extra added to the economy from immigration goes to the immigrants themselves in the forms of wages and benefits. there is a tiny benefit to the nativeborn, equal to about 2/10 of one...
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-india pakistan history and relationship over the years but he's also been a great deal of work on the counterterrorism and certainly on al qaeda and that is one of the issues here today. next to him is michael duran during the bush administration and writing a book now on historical background in the middle east that president eisenhower specifically has written a great deal about syria and has had this house one of his big areas of expertise and focus now for a decade or longer. those of you that followed twitter and follow the pages in general will certainly have seen a great deal of his work. next to him is jeremy shapiro back as a visiting scholar after having spent a number of years in the u.s. government and specifically the obama administration working among other things on this issue. he like others is speaking only for himself, but nonetheless will benefit from the experience and the insight he gained there. he's also the co-author with philip corydon of one of the best if not the best book on nato's role and the atlantic alliance role in the iraq war. very familiar on other
-india pakistan history and relationship over the years but he's also been a great deal of work on the counterterrorism and certainly on al qaeda and that is one of the issues here today. next to him is michael duran during the bush administration and writing a book now on historical background in the middle east that president eisenhower specifically has written a great deal about syria and has had this house one of his big areas of expertise and focus now for a decade or longer. those of you...
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using 702 authority intercepted an e-mail from a terrorist located in pakistan. that individual was talking with an individual located inside the united states talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives. through legal process, that individual was identified and he was located in denver, colorado. the f.b.i. followed him to new york city and later executed search warrants with the new york joint terrorism task force and n.y.p.d. and found bomb- making components and backpacks. he later confessed to a plot to bomb the new york subway system with backpacks. also working with business records, the n.s.a. was able to provide a previously unknown number of one of the coconspirators. this was the first core al-qaeda plot since 9/11 directed from afghanistan. another example, n.s.a. was monitoring a known extremist in yemen. this individual was in contact with an individual in the united states. individuals that we identified through a fisr that the f.b.i. applied for were able to detect a plot to bomb the new york stock exchange. he had been providing information
using 702 authority intercepted an e-mail from a terrorist located in pakistan. that individual was talking with an individual located inside the united states talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives. through legal process, that individual was identified and he was located in denver, colorado. the f.b.i. followed him to new york city and later executed search warrants with the new york joint terrorism task force and n.y.p.d. and found bomb- making components and backpacks. he later...
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we just came back from pakistan and we met family who is lost their loved ones, 176 children killed by drone strikes? how can we say that is legal? if it is a mistake, who is going to pay for that mistake? attorney general we have the right to get answers for this, not just the people no congress but we the public. you're doing the drone killing out of our name. >> three out of four americans killed by mistake. you admitted. >> is it true that the c.i.a. -- [inaudible] is there more to "the new york time" senator feinstein said that she was unaware. >> is that legal to kill every male military aid, what happens if another country tried to do that here in the united states? the precedent that we're setting that we're a world of chaos. because this hearing is over we the public finally get to say something. because during the hearing we could not hold the signs above our shoulders. we need to stop justifying killing drones. stope justifying killing drone strikes. we're making more enemies and we're playing in the hands of extremists like al qaeda. this is a national security threat and w
we just came back from pakistan and we met family who is lost their loved ones, 176 children killed by drone strikes? how can we say that is legal? if it is a mistake, who is going to pay for that mistake? attorney general we have the right to get answers for this, not just the people no congress but we the public. you're doing the drone killing out of our name. >> three out of four americans killed by mistake. you admitted. >> is it true that the c.i.a. -- [inaudible] is there more...
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the special forces units who go into libya and somalia and go into pakistan risk their lives to capture these people alive, if possible, so that we can gather intelligence. it really does bother me that this operation, which was very successful, that we only had control of this enemy prisoner for about 10 or 11 days. you'll never convince me that in that short period of time we were able to gather the intelligence he possessed, because for 20 years he's been associated with al qaeda at the highest levels. he was a treasure-trove of information. so this was a political decision by the obama administration, not a legal decision based on the law of war. this is not what our military advises or intelligence community advised. this is what the president has chosen to do because he doesn't want to use guantanamo bay. why was he placed on a ship? because there is no prison available in the united states other than a naval vessel to hold someone as an enemy combatant in the law of war. why? because this president refuses to use guantanamo bay. if we can close guantanamo bay and create a new pri
the special forces units who go into libya and somalia and go into pakistan risk their lives to capture these people alive, if possible, so that we can gather intelligence. it really does bother me that this operation, which was very successful, that we only had control of this enemy prisoner for about 10 or 11 days. you'll never convince me that in that short period of time we were able to gather the intelligence he possessed, because for 20 years he's been associated with al qaeda at the...
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you are working in environments, south sudan, parts of afghanistan and pakistan sometimes where you don't always get the sense that this is a top priority for our international partners. and so, so i hope you're all working to engage your ambassador, make sure they are carrying the torch as well. this is a shared responsibility. >> maybe one more. or we can be done. okay, thank you very much. keep up the good work. [applause] >> thank you all for coming come and thank you, doctor shah. this part of our day is over but we hope you will go out and continued the conversations where ever you may be deceiving. and that you come back refreshed and ready to talk about economic development and workforce development's, so thank you so much for coming to have a good evening. [applause] >> live pictures from the reserve officers association as they continue their annual national security symposium here in washington. this morning will show remarks by armed service committee chair senator carl levin. there will also be a panel discussion with reserve chiefs of all the military service branches. they
you are working in environments, south sudan, parts of afghanistan and pakistan sometimes where you don't always get the sense that this is a top priority for our international partners. and so, so i hope you're all working to engage your ambassador, make sure they are carrying the torch as well. this is a shared responsibility. >> maybe one more. or we can be done. okay, thank you very much. keep up the good work. [applause] >> thank you all for coming come and thank you, doctor...
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east jigsaw, whether it's iran, air of israel, whether we maintain our expertise on afghanistan and pakistan. these are the areas where we can exercise influence where we've got something additional to put on the table and to cause the united states administration of the day just to rethink its policy and i think it requires maintaining our diplomatic network which is particularly interest of this committee. so that's a range of the things that i think going from the strategic through to the more day-to-day issues of our assets and our diplomatic assets around the world. >> thank you. sir nigel, one of the changes that was brought in with the coalition government in the uk was a national security council, national security advisor. has that assisted, facilitated and influenced the u.s. administration in a way that wasn't the case before? >> i think it was a helpful development. i think it was an evolution, not a completely new start because of course, you know, we had versions of the same thing in the previous few years with a growing role -- >> including your own rolled? >> indeed. indeed,
east jigsaw, whether it's iran, air of israel, whether we maintain our expertise on afghanistan and pakistan. these are the areas where we can exercise influence where we've got something additional to put on the table and to cause the united states administration of the day just to rethink its policy and i think it requires maintaining our diplomatic network which is particularly interest of this committee. so that's a range of the things that i think going from the strategic through to the...
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we visited one which i don't think we will ever forget, we visited in pakistan a group of women who have acid thrown on their faces, which is, i cannot describe to you how horrific this crime is. they were using the internet to recover their identity. so on the internet no one knew they had been so victimized. building businesses, achieving the objective in a society where their shame was such that they could not go out of their homes. or can't use the internet to put pressure on the accused, who inevitably were known but not prosecuted for one of the worst crimes in humanity. so i felt that if for any reason we should do what we do, it's for that reason. >> we will and by saying education around the world will be transformed and the people who have least benefited in parts of the world from education have been girls and women, and i hope that will be a major transformation in the 21st century. this book is about to make transformation of the 21st century, "the new digital age," it hit bestseller lists. friends at politics and prose can help keep it there but if you go buy the book, so g
we visited one which i don't think we will ever forget, we visited in pakistan a group of women who have acid thrown on their faces, which is, i cannot describe to you how horrific this crime is. they were using the internet to recover their identity. so on the internet no one knew they had been so victimized. building businesses, achieving the objective in a society where their shame was such that they could not go out of their homes. or can't use the internet to put pressure on the accused,...